Right now I am eating a tomato like an apple. I do that sometimes and people think I am weird, but thats cool cause they just don't know how good a vine ripened tomato with sea salt sprinkled on it before each bite is. They lose.
I have a secret to tell: I hate LA. I am really trying not to but it is hard. This place has no soul. I keep looking for the special things, the small things, the little corners and colours that make a place special and mine but they are not here. I like my little corner of Hollywood, I do...but it isn't enough. The ocean is too far away. Everything is too far away.
Here is another secret: I do not know how to write about music. At all. I know what I feel about it but I don't really know what I think about it. I don't really like thinking about it. I just like it to be and exist in my life and make me feel things or not feel things depending on what I need that day. I am not doing well at this writing about it thing. I still want to share it but I am finding it daunting to sit here and write about it in some way that can be deciphered by the average human being. It is okay though. I am going to do it anyway.
This entry is about José González. Jose gonzales is from a small town in Sweden, born to Argentinean parents. The catch words LastFm are telling me for him are indie and acoustic and folk. I don't even know what the word indie means anymore and I don't care so lets just forget about that one. Acoustic and Folk; yes. What is up with Sweden these days? I either love or hate the music that comes out of there... anyhow. I've mostly been listening to his second album 'In Our Nature' since I got it first. I like it very much. For the last three days I have listened to it non stop. That means I get up in the morning and listen to it while I run. Then I unlock my bike and have a song on pause, ready to go. I put my bike seat back on (People in LA think it is endlessly hilarious that I bother to take it off 'haha where is the rest of your bike?' ) and when I am ready to actually start moving I hit play. I don't really know why I do this but I always do. I need the music to start when I do. Anyhow, I listen to it to work and at work and home from work and while paintings and before I sleep. It is not often that I find music I can do this with. The last was probably Richard Youngs' Sapphie. I love that album for all its solitude and sadness. I love In Our Nature for all its solitude and happiness and....contentment and calmness. The songs are thoughtful and without being didactic and introspective without being haughty or ostrasizing. Listening to this album feels like sitting in the sun with an old friend who you may not have seen for some time, listening to them telling you stories about what has gone on...and actually being interested in knowing.
The guitar is melodic and lyrical. This is an album for thinking but like Sapphie is. For me it is for biking and painting and writing and anything else that involves me being alone but not wanting to feel too alone.
My favourite tracks are:
Down the line
Cycling Trivialities
Killing for Love
Down The Line
I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right.
There was a dirt upon your hands
doing the same mistake twice
making the same mistake twice
Come on over and be so caught up
its not about compromising.
I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right
I see darkness down the line
I know its hard to fight.
There was a dirt upon your hands
doing the same mistake twice
making the same mistake twice.
Come on over
be so caught up its all about compromise.
I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right.
Don’t let the darkness eat you up
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